When one looks at the yields on very short-term U.S. Government debt, yields on the 2-Year and 5-Year notes are up a big percentage over the past three years.
Since 2011, the yield on the 2-year note is up over 200% (0.17% to 0.56%) while the 5-year is up more than 100%. No doubt the actual rate remains very low on a historical basis.
The point of the two charts below is NOT the percentage increase in short-term yields we have seen over the past three years. The focus is to see if interest-rate trends on a short-term basis are changing and speculate on the potential impact on longer-term rates.
The 2-year yield looks to be making an attempt to break out of a falling channel at (1) and the yield on the 5-year note is at falling resistance and could be creating a bullish ascending triangle pattern.
New Trends Start From Somewhere
I am watching to see if a trend change in short term rates will spill over into the longer end of the yield curve.